Student Code of Conduct 2011-2012 - Rockwall ISD

Aggravated assault, sexual assault, or aggravated sexual assault.Arson. (See glossary.)Murder, capital murder, or criminal attempt to commit murder or capital murder.Indecency with a child, aggravated kidnapping, manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, or aggravatedrobbery.Continuous sexual abuse of a young child or children.Felony drug- or alcohol-related offense.Use, exhibition, or possession of a firearm (as defined by state law), an illegal knife, a club, or prohibited weapon,or possession of a firearm (as defined by federal law).Property of Another DistrictA student may be expelled for committing any offense that is a state-mandated expellable offense if the offense iscommitted on the property of another district in Texas or while the student is attending a school-sponsored or schoolrelatedactivity of a school in another district in Texas.While in DAEPA student may be expelled for engaging in serious offenses or persistent misbehavior (see glossary) that violates thedistrict’s Code, while placed in a DAEP.Mandatory Expulsion: Misconduct That Requires ExpulsionFederal LawA student must be expelled for bringing to school a firearm, as defined by federal law, when the offense occurs on schoolproperty or while attending a school-sponsored or school-related activity on or off school property “Firearm” under federallaw includes:Any weapon (including a starter gun) that will, is designed to, or may readily be converted to expel a projectile bythe action of an explosive.The frame or receiver of any such weapon.Any firearm muffler or firearm weapon.Any destructive device, such as any explosive, incendiary or poison gas bomb, or grenade.Texas Penal CodeA student must be expelled for any of the following offenses that occur on school property or while attending a schoolsponsoredor school-related activity on or off school property:Using, exhibiting, or possessing the following, as defined by the Texas Penal Code:A firearm (any device designed, made, or adapted to expel a projectile through a barrel by using the energygenerated by an explosion or burning substance or any device readily convertible to that use), unless the use,exhibition, or possession of the firearm occurs at an off-campus approved target range facility while participatingin or preparing for a school-sponsored shooting sports competition or a shooting sports educational activity that issponsored or supported by the Parks and Wildlife Department or a shooting sports sanctioning organizationworking with the department.An illegal knife, such as a knife with a blade over 5½ inches; hand instrument, designed to cut or stab another bybeing thrown; dagger, including but not limited to a dirk, stiletto, and poniard; bowie knife; sword; or spear.A club (see glossary) such as an instrument specially designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflictingserious bodily injury or death by striking a person with the instrument, including a blackjack, nightstick, mace, andtomahawk.A prohibited weapon, such as an explosive weapon, a machine gun, a short-barrel firearm, a firearm silencer, aswitchblade knife, knuckles, armor-piercing ammunition, a chemical dispensing device, or a zip gun, or a tiredeflation device. (See glossary)20